For Cricketers of all levels
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"Simplicity is the key to Brilliance"
Bruce Lee
My Coaching Philosophy
My Coaching Philosophy -
"To provide an environment that will challenge and grow the individual as a cricketer"
Coaching fielding in the elite game is a skill I have developed over the last ten years working with Northamptonshire and Derbyshire County Cricket Club and the England Women's cricket team..
Billy Godleman
Cookie Patel's experience, knowledge and innovation have been a big help in my development in specific areas of my fielding. A hard taskmaster whilst working, allied with an open and honest feedback style. A dedicated coach that stimulates learning.
Wayne Madsen
I’m delighted and honoured to have been asked to write this testimonial for Cookie. I have known him for 4 years, as my fielding coach at Derbyshire and my mentor on my ECB Level 4 coaching course.
Cookie reignited my love for fielding, through engaging discussions, challenging training sessions as well as honest and accurate analysis of my match performance. I thoroughly enjoyed his use of innovative drills to challenge and improve my skills across the board.
Cookie built up a great rapport with the players at Derbyshire CCC and this combined with his technical and tactical knowledge was a catalyst to our performance improving. His energy and enthusiasm rubbed off on the players and he took us from an average fielding side to an efficient fielding unit that made an impact on winning games. Cookie’s ball-by-ball fielding score analysis, gave our players a focus which individuals could use to analyse their performance and it certainly added a great competitive edge to our fielding.
More than anything, what stands out for me is Cookie’s passion and professionalism for coaching and developing people. He is a diligent, tireless worker who cares about his players, their experiences and how they are achieving, both on and off the field. I’m sure anyone lucky enough to tap into Cookie’s knowledge base and experience will say the same thing!
Thank you for your continued support Cookie!
Stephen Peters
I worked closely with Cookie for a number of years during his time at Northants CCC, both in a one to one situation and during group fielding sessions.
The sessions were sharp, full of technical content and challenges but great fitness as well highlighting the need to perform in the field under pressure.
It’s never easy putting a group of ‘know it all cricketers’ through their paces in fielding sessions but Cookie has a great rapport with the guys which goes a long way to making every drill and session a success.
Oh, and he’s not a bad bloke either!
All the best
Pedro